Violent Part 1 crime statistics by 1990 census tract.

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) replaced its Records Management System (RMS) in May 2019. To preserve data quality and continuity between systems (2008-Present), SPD relied on the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The standardization of crime classifications allows for comparison over time. For more information on definitions and classifications, please visit https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr/nibrs.

Additional groupings are used to analyze crime in SPD’s Crime Dashboard. Violent and property crime categories align with best practices. For additional inquiries, we encourage the use of the underline data to align with the corresponding query.

Disclaimer: Only finalized (UCR approved) reports are released. Those in draft, awaiting approval, or completed after the update, will not appear until the subsequent day(s). Data is updated once every twenty-four hours. Records and classification changes will occur as a report makes its way through the approval and investigative process.

Under the current business process, every seizure (4th Amendment of the US Constitution) conducted under the evidentiary standard of Probable Cause (PC) is documented in the RMS (Mark43). In addition to physical arrests made by officers, the system is configured to capture warrants, and summons arrests (where the officer is affecting a PC seizure on the authority of someone else (the court) and administrative arrest types that document updates to the identity of the subject who was arrested and additional charges. In total, 12 types of arrest are captured in the source.

Note: This data set includes counts of arrest reports written which are distinct from physical, in-custody events. All counts herein reflect either total counts of arrest reports by the selected filter parameters, and/or the total number of reports written per subject.

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Seattle Municipal Court case filings by case category

Number of Seattle Municipal Court criminal, infraction and specialty court hearings held by year

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